During the implementation of the Jingzhou Hengyi Resource Recycling Co., Ltd. project in Jiangling County, the government led the construction of a 137-acre green sorting center for waste textiles, coordinated the establishment of a 390,000-cubic-meter waste textile storage base, and built a recycling network covering the county, township, and village levels, resolving the landing threshold for the collection and storage of over 400,000 tons of waste textile raw materials for the Hengyi Jingzhou project. As of the end of August 2026, the project had cumulatively developed 8,785 C-end recycling outlets, signed contracts with more than 400 B-end textile and apparel enterprises, and achieved an average daily waste textile recycling volume of about 1,200 tons.

Key Points

  • The project requires a 400,000-ton-level storage and sorting carrier; Jiangling built a 137-acre sorting center and secured a 390,000-cubic-meter storage base
  • More than 100 county, township, and village waste textile recycling outlets were deployed, integrating existing grassroots outlets of supply and marketing, postal, and express delivery networks
  • In 2026, the plan is to develop 12,000 C-end recycling outlets; as of the end of August, 8,785 had been developed, with average daily recycling of about 1,200 tons

The Hengyi Jingzhou project, with an investment of over 10 billion yuan, proposes to build the country's largest, most technologically advanced, and most cost-effective waste textile recycling industrial base, achieving harmless and high-value recycling and utilization of waste textile materials. Recycling channels and collection-distribution capacity are key constraints to its implementation: according to the plan, the project needs to build a storage and sorting carrier of over 400,000 tons, and while many places had expressed interest in introducing the project, the collection and storage of large-scale waste textile raw materials was regarded as a hard threshold. Zhi Sheji, director of the Jiangling County Investment Promotion Center, summarized it as "the pain point is in recycling, the difficulty is in collection and distribution, and the key is in supporting facilities."

Jiangling's strategy was for the government to take the lead in building the system—in local terms, "if there is no recycling system, we will build one ourselves." The local government formed a special working group to coordinate the planning of sorting, storage, and transfer zones, built the 137-acre Hengyi waste textile green sorting center, and coordinated a 390,000-cubic-meter waste textile storage base for the project. On the recycling end, Jiangling designed a three-level county-township-village recycling network for Hengyi, integrating existing grassroots outlets of supply and marketing, postal, and express delivery networks, and deployed more than 100 waste textile recycling outlets, forming a government-guided, market-led recycling mechanism, which also involves a nationwide online recycling platform. Yang Hua, director of the Jiangling County Supply and Marketing Cooperative Joint Association, admitted that at the beginning of the project's implementation, the enterprise itself was not fully confident about building such a large-scale recycling system.

Regarding raw material sources, with local promotion, Hengyi established cooperation with express delivery companies, garment processing enterprises, and renewable resource recycling enterprises, while also expanding into recycling markets outside the county. In 2026, the project plans to focus mainly on Hubei Province and develop 12,000 C-end recycling outlets nationwide; as of the end of August, 8,785 had been cumulatively developed, more than 400 B-end textile and apparel enterprises had been signed, and the average daily waste textile recycling volume was about 1,200 tons. A relevant person in charge of Hubei Hengyi stated that Jiangling's business environment has provided great assistance to the project, and the enterprise's goal is to build the project into a national-level circular economy industry benchmark. Currently, the Hengyi Group is replicating and promoting this recycling model externally using Jiangling as a template.

Source: Jiangling Helps Enterprise Build a 400,000-Ton Waste Textile Storage Center · Originally published on 2026-09-19